"Could just hear this screaming laughter" — Bridget Jones star Sally Phillips recalls awkward lunch with Colin Firth 

Actress Sally Phillips recently took Bridget Jones fans back to past when she unveiled some hilarious moments from the sets.

As per an article in People, the actress shared a memory of behaving exactly like Bridget Jones to her handsome co-stars, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth.

“I’d try and talk to them like a grown-up,” Phillip mentioned about Firth and Grant. “I remember one time Colin saying, ‘Oh you can come have lunch in my trailer if you like,’ and going into his trailer and just being so awkward.”

Phillips recalled that Colin was trying to speak about London theatre to her having no idea that she hasn't had any proper acting training.

“He’s trying to talk to me about London theater. He doesn’t know that I’m not a proper actress and I’ve never done any theater really,” said the actress. “I’m going, ‘Yes, the [Royal Shakespeare Company]’ — I’d never been — ‘Really interesting.I practically tripped going down the stairs on the way out,” she said. “And then I could just hear this screaming laughter from the others.”

In a recent episode of popular author Caroline O'Donoghue's podcast titled Sentimental Garbage, Phillips recalled being extremely close to her co-stars Shirley Henderson and James Callis. The three of them played Bridget's gang of best friends Jude, Tom and Shazzer opposite Renee Zellweger in all four Bridget Jones movies.

Recalling the shoot of Bridget Jones's Diary in the year 2001, Phillips shared that Callis and Henderson would start laughing as soon as she tried to talk to Colin or Henderson, who played Phillip's love interest in the films.

Incidentally, Firth was not the only one on the sets of Bridget Jones's Diary with whom she had an awkward run-in. The actress shared a similar experience with Hugh Grant and that she had a minor role in Nothing Hill which was later eliminated.

“That was the first time I met Hugh,” Phillips began explaining the incident. “And I was walking down to set, and I turned around and the third [assistant director] said, ‘Have you met Hugh?’ And I turned and there was Hugh Grant and I screamed. I accidentally screamed. To this day I don’t know why, but I think it was something to do with size? That he was smaller … That was a really bad start to my relationship with him,” the actress said jokingly.

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The actress took advantage of the platform for adressing a long time rumor while filming 2004's Bridget Jones's Dairy: The Edge of Reason, that she did something that made Grant not talk to her for years.

“Well, let’s be honest, our paths don’t cross much, so it’s easy not to speak to me for two years,” the actress smirked. She elaborated that she got really drunk and lost her flip-flops in the sea while filming in Thailand. “And I was indiscreet, and that was the line that — the moment that [Grant] felt I was no longer a safe person to spend time with, and that’s completely understandable,” said Phillips. “We’ve spoken about it now and it’s all fine.”

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